RUTGERS CONFERENCE WILL GO ON
THIRD NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF THE PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
October 10-12, 2003 Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ
DETAILS/UPDATE: NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON THE PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
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http://www.divestmentconference.com
REGISTER NOW ONLINE : http://www.divestmentconference.com
Email registration: registration@njsolidarity.org
ENDORSE NOW ONLINE:
http://www.njsolidarity.org/conference/confendorse.html
Email endorsements: endorse@njsolidarity.org
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Friday, Oct. 10 - Sunday, Oct. 12
THE CONFERENCE WILL GO ON!
The Conference will go on as scheduled in New Brunswick, NJ! We will carry on our struggle with Rutgers, but rest assured, the conference will happen and will establish forever, at Rutgers University and beyond, that Palestine and the Palestine solidarity movement will not be silenced by the state nor by Zionist forces. Our voices will be heard and our movement will strategize, advance and take action! Visit http://www.divestmentconference.com/ for speakers, workshops and more information!
Write to Rutgers University to express your opposition to administrative attempts to cancel the conference! The letters to the administration and other demonstrations of solidarity in support of the conference and our movement have been a major and impactful force. If you have not yet written to the administration, sent forward the action alert, endorsed the conference, registered for the conference or donated to the conference - now is the time to do so! Your support is critical and urgently needed!
Write to Rutgers here: http://www.divestmentconference.com/emailrutgers.html
RALLY! SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11!
As part of the conference, as a demonstration of solidarity with the Palestinian people, an _expression of our denied rights to be heard, and a clear confrontation for justice and liberation against the Zionist forces who support slaughter, terror and eradication of the Palestinian people, we will hold a MASS RALLY at Rutgers University on Saturday, October 11!
Saturday, October 11 5:00 PM BROWER COMMONS - 121 College Avenue New Brunswick, New Jersey Rutgers University
We will have numerous speakers and contingents from the conference and around the region! Bring your buses, vans and cars to join our voices together for justice in Palestine, in the US and around the world!
REGISTER AND ENDORSE!
The conference IS taking place on October 10-12, 2003! Make your travel plans now - book your plane, train and bus tickets, reserve your hotels and plan to be at Rutgers University for the Third North American Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement!
Register and endorse online at : http://www.divestmentconference.com
See our developing schedule with workshops and speakers at http://www.divestmentconference.com
Register: http://www.njsolidarity.org/dconfregister.html
Endorse: http://www.njsolidarity.org/conference/confendorse.html
Show your organizational support and endorse the conference! Sign on to be there and participate in an exciting, important moment in our movement - uniting the solidarity movement, expressing our solidarity as it is desperately needed with the Palestinian people, and uniting our struggles with those of the Palestinian people - for justice and liberation, against oppression and exploitation.
DONATE TO THE CONFERENCE!
Your support is enabling our conference to continue to grow! Due to the series of attacks suffered by the conference, we need your support now more than ever. Please, help make the conference a strong success and donate! Donate online at: http://www.njsolidarity.org/confdonate.html or make checks out to "New Jersey Solidarity" and send to: New Jersey Solidarity SAC Box 52 613 George Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Third North American Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement seeks papers, documents and other written materials that memorialize historical and present experience in building Palestine solidarity and divestment movements. We welcome materials about research, experience in setting up student groups and campaigns, developing divestment calls, and outreaching to others.
We welcome papers with a historical focus, overviews of current movements and situations, and documents looking toward the future. These papers will be distributed at the conference, at Rutgers University on October 10-12, 2003, and beyond, published together as a record and a guide to movement-building. All SJP chapters and individuals are invited to submit papers and documents.
Please submit these papers and documents before September 27, 2003 to Snehal Shingavi at justiceinpalestine@hotmail.com .
THANK YOU again for your support - and see you, at Rutgers University, on October 10-12, 2003!!
http://www.divestmentconference.com
Endorsing Organizations - A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
- Ad-Hoc Nepal Solidarity Committee
- Al-Awda Los Angeles
- Al-Awda NY/NJ
- Al-Awda Orange County
- Al-Awda San Diego
- Al-Awda, San Francisco Area
- Al-Bireh Palestine Society - California
- American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Fresno Chapter
- American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Greater Sacramento Area Chapter
- American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Los Angeles/Orange County Chapter
- American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
- Americans for Social Justice
- Amnesty International of Park Falls, WI
- Americans for a Just Peace in the Middle East
- ANSWER Coalition, Los Angeles
- ANSWER Coalition, Orange County
- ANSWER Coalition, SF Bay Area
- ANSWER Coalition, Western Mass
- Arab American Caucus of the California Democratic Party
- Arab American Press Guild
- Arise for Social Justice
- Augusta Coalition for Peace and Justice
- Bay Area United Against War
- Bayan International - U.S.A.
- Bayan International - Los Angeles Chapter
- Bridgewater State College R.E.A.P.S. Restoring Environmental And Political
- Brisbane Free the Five Committee
- Bus Riders Union/Labor Community Strategy Center
- Campus Greens at The Ohio State University
- Central New Jersey Coalition for Peace and Justice
- Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism
- Christians and Muslims Establishing Peace
- Citizens for Fair Legislation
- Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace
- Colorado Palestine Solidarity Campaign
- Committee for Justice to Defend the LA8
- Committee for the Release of Farouk Abdel-Muhti
- Committee to Defend Palestinian Human Rights
- Communist Party, USA's, Frederick Douglass Club
- Communist Party of Argentina
- Conscious Roots (San Francisco)
- Dallas Peace Center
- Deir Yassin Society of New York
- Dream Dancer Design
- Egyptian American Professional Society
- Ever Reviled Records
- For a Better World
- Free Palestine Alliance - USA
- Grandmothers for Peace International
- Green Party of Dallas County
- Hawaii Solidarity Committee
- Indigenous Student Alliance at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California
- International Action Center
- Int'l League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS-US)
- International Socialist Organization, USA
- Islamic Association for Palestine
- Islamic Center of NYU
- Jews for a Free Palestine
- Just Peace: An Action Group for Justice in the Middle East
- Kabataang maka-Bayan (KmB)
- La Raza Unida Party
- LAGAI -- Queer Insurrection (SF Bay Area)
- March For Justice
- Marin Center for Peace and Justice
- Marshall Action for Peaceful Solutions - Marshall University
- Maui EARTHDAY Collective
- Mexican American Education Foundation
- Mideast:Just Peace
- Minority eXperience Network
- Modesto Committee for Peace in the Middle East, California
- Morton County Citizens for Repsonsible Government
- Movement In Motion Arts Collective
- Movimento Democratico Pela Anistia
- Muslim Student Association - National
- Muslim Student Association at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
- Muslim Student Association - Sacramento
- National Committee to Free the Five Cuban Political Prisoners - Los Angeles
- National Lawyers Guild - Los Angeles
- New England Committee to Defend Palestine
- New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine
- New School Aikido
- New York Committee to Defend Palestine
- New Zealand Peace Council
- Not in Our Name Mxico
- NYC Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition
- Orange County Peace and Freedom Party
- Orange County Veterans for Peace
- Palestine Action at Union Square
- Palestine Children's Welfare Fund
- Palestine Solidarity Committee of South Africa
- Palestine Solidarity Group - Chicago
- Palestine Solidarity Group - Vancouver B.C. Canada
- Palestinian American Congress
- Palestinian American Women Association of Southern California
- Palestinian - Canadian Student Society - University of Calgary, Canada
- Palestinian Council for Justice and Peace - Ramallah, Palestine
- Partido Comunista do Brasil
- Peace Action - Sacramento Area, California
- Peace and Justice Alliance (Central Washington University)
- Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County
- Peace and Justice Network of San Joaquin County
- Philippine Peasant Support Network (PESANTE)
- Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee PoetsWesth
- Progress Acadamic Group - An-Najah University, Nablus, Palestine
- Proyecto Common Touch
- Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change
- Queers For Peace And Justice
- Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!) (SF Bay Area)
- Revolution Youth
- Rutgers Pakistan Student Association
- Rutgers University Queens Chorale
- Sacred Roots
- Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights - Concordia
- St. Pete for Peace
- Stony Brook Coalition Against War
- Students for Corporate Responsibility - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Students for Justice in Palestine, California State Univ. Sacramento
- Students for Justice in Palestine, Sacramento
- Students for Justice in Palestine, UC Berkeley
- Students for Justice in Palestine, UC Davis
- Students for Justice in Palestine, University of Illinois-Chicago
- Students for Social Justice
- Students Movement for Justice
- South Jersey Earth First!
- Suburban Outreach
- Sudanese American Society
- SUSTAIN, St. Louis
- Third World Forum
- Third World Majority
- UC Berkeley Arab Student Union
- Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento
- Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land
- We The People United
- Weekly East West Link & Urdu Times
- Women Against War
- Youth Solidarity Summer
ADMINISTRATION ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE STUDENT SPEECH AT BEHEST OF PRO-ISRAEL LOBBY; ATTEMPTS TO CANCEL STUDENT CONFERENCEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Paola Rizzuto
New Jersey Solidarity
(347)239-9156
Invisipoet@aol.com
Charlotte Kates
New Jersey Solidarity
973-297-0161
732-207-7215
ckates@pegasus.rutgers.edu
NEW BRUNSWICK - (September 12, 2003) - Dean Marie Logue of the Department of Student Affairs at Rutgers College; Rutgers University today announced to several student representatives of student Palestine advocacy organization New Jersey Solidarity that the administration has deemed that "logistics" forbid students to proceed with a national Palestine solidarity conference scheduled for October 10-12, 2003; the student organization is determined to continue, saying they will hold the conference "wherever we must." This decision comes the day University President Robert McCormick is scheduled to appear at a dinner sponsored by Rutgers Hillel, a Zionist group on campus.The hastily-called meeting, to which students were called on Thursday evening, was unexplained. The organization's faculty advisor, Dr. Robert Trivers, was unavailable, and students attempted to reschedule the meeting, but were denied. Dean Logue stated at the meeting that "deadlines" prevented the conference from occurring, even though students had raised over $6,000 to be deposited in their account and met with Dean Johnston of Rutgers College on September 5 - the day of the allegedly missed deadlines. Organizers replied that this assertion was "ludicrous. The deans of this University have made it clear on numerous occasions that they do not want this conference to happen. This is political repression - just as the Palestinian people have been repressed through history. The University is attempting to abuse bureaucracy in order to silence student voices," said Paola Rizzuto, a Rutgers College sophomore and President of the organization.
"We refuse to be silenced. We will hold our conference. The Palestinian people have continued to resist despite incredible and overwhelming force displayed against them - and we owe them nothing less than to refuse to be silenced. We stand in solidarity with Palestine, and we call upon this university to divest all of its funds from the state of Israel and companies that do business with it. To do otherwise is to support apartheid. This is an official action on the part of Rutgers University in support of apartheid," said Charlotte Kates, a second-year student at Rutgers School of Law in Newark.
Robert McCormick, the University's new President, is scheduled to appear tonight at a Hillel-sponsored dinner at Brower Commons, the University dining hall. Rutgers Hillel is sponsoring "Israel Inspires," a counter-conference that will take place the same weekend as the student Palestine solidarity conference. "This appearance indicates the overt bias and discrimination displayed by Rutgers University administration," said Cecilia Joulain, a Douglass College senior and Treasurer of New Jersey Solidarity. "Bureaucracy is not an excuse. This is an attempt to silence student organizing at the University."
THIRD NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF THE PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT October 10-12, 2003
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ
REGISTER NOW ONLINE :
http://www.divestmentconference.com
Email registration: registration@njsolidarity.orgENDORSE NOW ONLINE:
http://www.njsolidarity.org/conference/confendorse.html
Email endorsements: endorse@njsolidarity.org
On October 10-12, 2003, hundreds of activists and organizers from around the continent will gather at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ for the THIRD NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF THE PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT!
Join them - and REGISTER and ENDORSE the conference! Listen to exciting speakers, take part in valuable and informative workshops, share your experiences in activist skill-sharing sessions and come together with other organizers to plan our course in building the movement to DIVEST FROM ISRAELI APARTHEID and stand in SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE!
Book your tickets - plan your trips! Join us!
For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.divestmentconference.com /
ENDORSED BY
- A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
- Ad-Hoc Nepal Solidarity Committee
- Al-Awda Los Angeles
- Al-Awda NY/NJ
- Al-Awda Orange County
- Al-Awda San Diego
- Al-Bireh Palestine Society - California
- Campus Greens at The Ohio State University
- Central New Jersey Coalition for Peace and Justice
- Citizens for Fair Legislation
- Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace
- Colorado Palestine Solidarity Campaign
- Conscious Roots (San Francisco)
- Deir Yassin Society of New York
- Ever Reviled Records
- Free Palestine Alliance - US
- For a Better World
- International Action Center
- International Socialist Organization
- Just Peace: An Action Group for Justice in the Middle East
- LAGAI -- Queer Insurrection (SF Bay Area)
- The New England Committee to Defend Palestine
- Muslim Student Association at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
- Muslim Student Association - Sacramento
- New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine
- New York Committee to Defend Palestine
- New York City Free Mumia Coalition
- Palestine Action at Union Square
- Palestine Solidarity Group - Chicago
- Palestine Solidarity Group - Vancouver B.C. Canada
- Palestinian American Congress
- The Palestinian Council for Justice and Peace - Ramallah, Palestine
- Peace and Justice Alliance (Central Washington University)
- Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee
- Progress Acadamic Group
- An-Najah University, Nablus, Palestine
- Queers For Peace And Justice
- Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!) (SF Bay Area)
- Sacred Roots
- Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights - Concordia
- Students for Corporate Responsibility - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Students for Justice in Palestine - UC Berkeley
- Students for Justice in Palestine - University of Illinois-Chicago
- Students for Social Justice - UIC
- Sudanese American Society
- UC Berkeley Arab Student Union
- Women Against War
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